Private company
Who owns Discovery Family Channel (DFC)
One company in the researched set discloses a stake in Discovery Family Channel (DFC), none of it sized by anyone who discloses it. Discovery Family Channel (DFC) is private, so no 13F reports it: a 13F covers exchange listed positions only. These figures exist because each holder disclosed the stake in its own filings.
Discovery Family Channel (DFC) - Profile
- Type
- joint venture
- Based in
- United States
- Founded
- 2010
Discovery Family Channel is an American cable and satellite television network run as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery and Hasbro, created to carry children's and family entertainment in the United States. It began in October 2010 when Hasbro and Discovery Communications relaunched Discovery Kids as The Hub, later Hub Network, with Hasbro supplying programming from its toy and entertainment brands and Discovery supplying carriage, distribution and network operations. The channel was rebranded Discovery Family on 13 October 2014, when the partners restructured the venture and Discovery took operational control. Its daytime schedule has drawn on Hasbro properties such as My Little Pony, Littlest Pet Shop and Transformers Rescue Bots, while primetime uses Discovery's factual, natural history, adventure and science programming aimed at a family audience. Warner Bros. Discovery consolidates the network and Hasbro carries its interest as an equity method investment.
Source
Discovery Family Channel (DFC) files nothing with the SEC, so none of this comes from a filer record. The description was written for this site in August 2026 from Hasbro, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 28 December 2025, Note 9 Equity Method Investment (SEC), The Hub Network to Become Discovery Family Channel on October 13 (Hasbro investor news, 2014) and Hub Network to Become Discovery Family (License Global). The ownership figures below come from the holders' filings instead, and are sourced row by row.
The disclosed stakes
One row per position. Where a holder reports the same company in two share classes, both rows are shown rather than summed, because the class is part of a position's identity.
Where each figure comes from
A private stake has no ownership form behind it, so the source is always the holder's own filing or disclosure. Anything modelled says so, with the arithmetic.
- Hasbro, Inc.. Hasbro purchased an initial 50% share in DFC (a US cable TV joint venture with WBD dedicated to children's and family entertainment) in October 2009 for $300.0 million cash plus certain future tax payments. On 23 Sep 2014 Hasbro and WBD amended the relationship: WBD increased its equity interest to 60% while Hasbro retained a 40% equity interest, per the FY2025 10-K's Note 9, Equity Method Investment. No standalone carrying value for the DFC investment is disclosed anywhere in the filing; the 10-K discloses impairment losses of $80.0 million (fiscal 2024) and $1.3 million (fiscal 2023), recognized within Other (income) expense, net after determining the fair value of Hasbro's interest was below its carrying value, but not the resulting carrying balance itself, so value_usd is left null rather than derived from those impairment figures. The Q2 FY2026 10-Q (period ended 28 Jun 2026) contains no mention of DFC, Discovery Family Channel, or an equity-method note at all, consistent with this level of joint-venture detail typically being disclosed annually rather than each quarter. pct_of_target is written as 40, matching the filing's own words 'the Company retained a 40% equity interest in DFC'. source
What this page is not
It is not a complete register. It lists the holders who happen to be inside the researched set and disclosed the stake themselves. A private company can have many other shareholders, and nothing here rules them out: venture investors, founders and employees usually appear in no public filing at all. Percentages are of Discovery Family Channel (DFC) where a holder stated one, and are missing where no holder did.